Oh dear. It's mid-way through February and I haven't yet written a blogpost. Let's have at it, shall we? Let me spill the tea in all the ways about why I've refrained from writing, why I've abandoned the dear blog, and why I've put every ounce of my energy into things other than writing at [...]
I wrote this essay months ago, just as schools across the country opened amidst a worldwide pandemic, and we faced yet another unique set of challenges in the Storms household. Months later, as 2021 comes to a close and the schools plan to open on schedule starting January 3, 2022 regardless of the dramatic spike [...]
Not going to lie. The banning of a certain someone from social media this week has me letting out a breath I didn't know was holding. (I'm a YA author. You knew I had to use that phrase eventually, right?) There is still so much work to be done to right our listless ship of [...]
Dear friends, As this last day of the year fast draws to an end (and my kiddos would be the first to remind me that it’s ALSO the end of a *decade*), I want to talk about something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Which is weird… …because I can’t think of the [...]
When I was in sixth grade, I, like the rest of the students in my class, was sent to the guidance counselor’s office to take a computerized test to help decide what I might want to do with my life—what careers were a match for my personality, my likes and dislikes, my strengths and weaknesses. [...]
Maybe it doesn't quite have the ring of Indiana Jones, but I think Indie Author Storms has a nice sound to it. So why did I decide to go indie and what’s next? I’ve been writing seriously for seven years, querying for four, and have four completed manuscripts—some of them with quite wonderful feedback from [...]
L. Ryan Storms 